What to do with a NUBUS DSP Card? (besides Photoshop) — #30

Post #30 by Bunsen

Source Forum	What to do with a NUBUS DSP Card? (besides Photoshop) — #30
Category	Development
Post Date	Wed, 23 May 2012 - 09:05
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/what-to-do-with-a-nubus-dsp-card-besides-photoshop.25414/

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Some Cards had four of the little suckers on board

Heh. How do you fancy sixty-four?

tested an 18 MB TIFF (RGB) file on a PowerMac 7200 / Using Adaptive Solutions' PowerShop the test took only nine seconds to apply ColorMatrix, and without the image processor, the test took 90 seconds.

So that's (allegedly) ten times as fast as a PPC 601 @ 75MHz. Now, fill a IIfx up with those ...

Pity the card is so rare (I've seen *one* on ebay in ten-ish years), and the processor so undocumented.

IMHO, the best general-purpose Nubus coprocessor remains the Radius Rocket: anything that can run on System 7.x / 040 can run on a Rocket.